Lessons from the New Cold War

America Confronts the China Challenge
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-4214-5344-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

How the US-China rivalry is reshaping global power, democracy, and the international order.

A new cold war is unfolding—one that will define the future of the international order. In Lessons from the New Cold War, editor Hal Brands assembles an all-star cast of the most influential thinkers in foreign policy, defense strategy, technology, and economics to grapple with the defining geopolitical rivalry of our time: the competition between the United States and China.

Over the past decade, Washington has placed its contest with Beijing at the center of its national strategy, forging a rare consensus across the political spectrum. But as this global confrontation intensifies—across supply chains, the Taiwan Strait, and cyberspace—key questions remain. Where is America succeeding? Where is it falling short? And how can it prepare for what lies ahead? Through a sweeping analysis that spans cutting-edge technology, economic decoupling, and military strategy, this book explores the multilayered nature of the conflict.

Contributors examine China's assertive economic statecraft and its ambitions for a new global order, the shifting nuclear balance and the intelligence war, the complex web of Indo-Pacific alliances, and the ideological struggle over democracy and authoritarianism. Covering vital topics like semiconductor supremacy, democracy's durability, India's strategic role, and the future of US leadership, this incisive collection offers an unflinching assessment of the New Cold War's stakes—and a roadmap for navigating its challenges. Essential reading for policymakers, scholars, and anyone concerned with the global balance of power, it is a vital guide to a rivalry that is reshaping the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brands, Hal

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Lessons from the New Cold War
Hal Brands

Part I: Trade, Technology, and Economics

1 America First vs. China's Brute Force Economics
Liza Tobin

2 Assessing the US-China Chip Competition
Chris Miller

3 China's Economic Statecraft and the US Response
Audrye Wong

4 The Missing Pillar: Economic Contingency Planning in an Era of US-China Competition
Hugo Bromley and Eyck Freymann

Part II: Allies, Partners, and the Struggle for Asia

5 Allies, Partners, and Strategic Competition with China
Michael J. Green

6 Great Expectations: India amid US-China Competition
Ashley J. Tellis

7 Understanding the Evolving Defense Competition with China
Michael Mazarr

8 The Denial Dilemma in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea
Zack Cooper

9 Shifting Nuclear Postures and US-China Rivalry
Francis J. Gavin

Part III: Politics, Strategy, Intelligence, and Values

10 The Asia First Debate
Kori Schake

11 The US-China Intelligence Competition: A Preliminary Assessment
Peter Mattis

12 The Battle for Soft Power: US-China Ideological Competition in the 2020s
Larry Diamond and Frances Hisgen

13 China, Domestic Politics, and America's Global Role
Peter Feaver and William Inboden

Part IV: America and China in a Shifting Global Order

14 China's Global Governance Gambit
Elizabeth Economy

15 Great Changes: Xi, Trump, and the Remaking of Global Order
Jude Blanchette

16 Competitive Antiliberalism: How Geoeconomics, Security, and Values Define Chinese and American Worldviews in the 2020s and Beyond
Rana Mitter

17 US-China Rivalry in a Shifting International System
Michael Beckley
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brands, Hal
Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. A columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, he is also the author or editor of several books, including The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age, The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today, and Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, with Michael Beckley.

Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. A columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, he is also the author or editor of several books, including The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World and War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World.